Being in the right place
Three weeks ago I spent ten days in San Francisco. I went to run our CTO Circle gathering, but I also got to spend time with Exponential, thanks to Guli, and with SOTI, thanks…
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I write about the systems, people and economics behind software.
I’m Marco Patiño, a Galician software engineer and founder based in Barcelona. I built Pullpo and run CTO Circle, a curated community for CTOs and senior engineering leaders. My writing is a practical, opinionated look at how AI is changing software, technical leadership and engineering teams.
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Notes for people building software
How do you keep improving as a technical leader?
At our last CTO Circle gathering in Barcelona, the most voted question during the open discussion came from an engineering leader at Spotify: “How do you keep improving as a…
The AI bill is coming
One of the best conversations from our last CTO Circle gathering in Madrid was about what happens when AI stops being subsidized. For the last few years, a lot of AI adoption…
Member of Technical Staff
Some time ago, a tweet went viral in tech circles. Several CTOs and senior technical leaders were joining Anthropic as Members of Technical Staff: not necessarily ICs in the…
The cost of being the innovators
Last week I wrote about creating your own playbook for AI engineering. Teams should look at what others are doing, experiment internally, and build their own way of working.…
Creating your own playbook for AI engineering
In software, we are used to hearing the term best practices. Writing tests is a best practice. Version control, CI/CD, code reviews... they are industry standards that save us…